Puzzle



0. OWENS.

' PuzzLE.

APPLICATION FILED IVIAY I6, 192|.

Patented A pr. 18, 1922.

proved puzzle consists lof a board 1,0 of rec-' tangular form having upstanding side railsH y one Vof the Vcages removed.

OWEN OWENS, or BiuaKLE's'rATIoiL'vmGmra PUZZLE.

Application filed May 16, 1921. Serial No. 469,764.

T 0 all whom t may concern Be it known that 1 OWEN OWENs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Berkley'Station, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have inventedy certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles, of which the following is a specification.

My presentinvention relates generally to puzzles, my object being the provision of'an ,entertaining puzzle Whose solution While possible is suiciently diiicult to insure maX- y imum amusement.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates my present invention and forms apart of this specification, y

Figure lis a top plan view showing my improved puzzle,

Figure 2 is a vertical section taken there through, and

Figure 3 is a detail perspective view of Referring now to these figures imy iin- 11 entirely surrounding the same so as to enclose the playing or moving field on the upper surface of the board 10 and thus retain a series of'balls 12 which are freely movable over the playing surface of the board 10 and are prevented from displacement by a cover 13 of transparent material such as glass Whose side edges are attached in any suitable manner to the upper edges of the rails 11.

The upperplaying surface of the board 10 is marked out to represent a baseball field khaving the representation of a diamond,

with the players in the fielding positions assumed in the progress of the game'as Well as representations of runners, therepresen- V tation lof the latter figures being preferably of a different color from those of the yigures in the elding positions.

paths of the runners are traps 14 for the balls 12, and traps 15 and 16 similar to the traps 14 are also disposed on the playing field respectively in thev center of the kdiamond and in the catchers position behind the corner of the diamond at Which the batsman takes his stand in line With Lthe pitcher.`

These several traps 14:, 15 and 16 stand above the playing surface of the board 10 In the four cor-- ners of the/diamond representative of the..

the latter lof which is preferably throughout except for the traps, and each trap is formed by a strip of material, preferably metal formed in V-shape with extensions converging toward one another so as to leave an open mouth 17 between their .free ends of slightly greater Width than the'diameter of the balls 12, each of these eXtensions 18 having one or more depending spurs 19 which may be driven `into thevplaying Wardly-tovvard the center ofthe diamond.

While the Vremaining cornerltrap` 14 at the irst. basemans position Lopens along Ya line paralleling Va line connecting the second basemans position with the batsmans position. The trap 15 inthe pitchers position opens parallel to the last mentioned trap 14 and Ain the ysame direction that is toward the batsmans'position While the trap 16 in the catchers position opens in an opposite direction toward the trap 15.

By so yconstruct-ing the traps and so dis Specification of Letters latfgrntkk` @Amantea APL 18, 1922 posing them in relation to one another I have found it possible to create an amus# ingly diilicult puzzle though one obviously possible of solution by skillful tilting of the board 10. While I contemplate the puzzle Will be suciently dicult of solution by permitting the balls-to be shifted indiscriminately in the several traps, greater diiiiculty may be brought about by coloring one of the balls one color to be trapped at the batsman position with thetwo balls of another color for the traps 15 and 16 at the pitchers kand catcherspositions, the remaining balls being uncolored for the remaining traps.y

I claim: Y

A puzzle including a board having an upper flat surface marked out to represent a baseball field, balls freely rolling on the said playing surface, and traps forthe balls and each having a single ball receiving opening, seid traps each including a strip of inat'eriztl upstanding edgewise from the playing Surface of the board and-otl V-shape prov1ded with extensions converging toward one nnother velndwvith then free ends spaced apart to form between them the receiving Y place. Y

v In' testiinony Vwhereofhave zrfixed I ny signature;

v'monthof the trap, Said extensions having,

OWEN QWENS. 

